The So-called "Democrats" Consolidating Power by Censoring Conservatives

 Yesterday, while driving about through the winter weather, I was listening to Glenn Beck as he was talking about the attempt to silence his radio program and kill The Blaze. I came home to find that Twitter had banned the President! The President! Whether you agree with Trump or not, he is the President. Just turn off the President if you don't want to hear what he has to say. All these special snowflakes who claim to be "triggered" by him can, frankly, just not listen. Why does Twitter feel the need to silence the President? But the question answers itself. They are afraid of WE the PEOPLE, not the President.  What they fear is that the President can bring together an army of 80 million people, whereas they want those 80 million people to feel isolated and surrounded.

But Twitter is not just banning the President. It is banning all sorts of conservative sites. So, many of these people, who's views are not wanted at Twitter are switching to Parler. But now we see that Apple prepares to ban Parler from devices as Big Tech purge continues. To be clear, this purge has been going on for much of 2020. Prager University has been complaining that youtube has been banning its content. Youtube is a subsidiary of Google. And Google is in bed with the Chinese Communist Party

Despite Facebook and Twitter hosting extremist activity on their websites, an accusation Apple has hurled specifically at Parler, neither company immediately responded to The Federalist’s inquiry over whether they are also being threatened with de-platforming by Apple. Both Facebook and Twitter have spent years masquerading as objective online platforms while acting as publishers, selectively censoring content that incriminates the companies’ political interests. Their roles as publishers came to full fruition when the companies weaponized their monopoly over the digital public square to suppress stories implicating then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in his son’s corrupt overseas business ventures.

Bongino said Parler has always complied with Apple’s App Store terms of service without compromising its integrity as a free-speech platform.

Apple, a company already facing moral and ethical issues through its dependency on slave labor in communist China, as reported by the Daily Caller, did not immediately respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.

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Parler, founded in 2018, was launched to serve as a free-speech alternative to Twitter and now boasts upwards of 18 million users, Bongino told The Federalist, warning that Apple’s “declared war” on the company stretches far wider than just Parler.

“Anyone who doesn’t tow the liberal line, they are now at open war with,” Bongino said, warning that if Apple prevails, there will never be another app that can operate as a free public square. “This is about having a public square where people can speak free of the surveillance state.”

Today, at the  American Thinker Andrea Widburg has an article that goes into more detail on the issue entitled The tech monoplies have sprung into action scrubbing anything and anyone that presents evidence that the capitol riots on Wednesday were instigated by provocateurs infiltrating the Trump Stop the Steal rally.

The tech companies contend that Trump instigated violence and his supporters can no longer be trusted. And no, it doesn’t matter that for much of 2020, Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioted, burned, looted, and threatened, beat, and murdered people. Not only did they stay on social media, but they were also lionized on social media and mainstream media for their thrilling, empowering exploits.

The hypocrisy is, of course, breath taking. There is no logical way to say that one set of rioters was ok, but another was not. Burning, looting, rioting, and murder is never to be tolerated, no matter the cause.  Inevitably, people who had nothing to do with the situation being rioted against become victims.  Property that people may have worked their whole lives for may be destroyed.  It is, frankly never to be tolerated.  But it has been by Democrat politicians and the tech monopolies. 

Speaking of the tech monopolies, they have left BLM and Antifa as well as the Mullahs of Iran and the CCP on their platforms, but have silenced one half of America, while claiming to be just a platform for others to post their content.   Does not BLM. Antifa, the Mullahs, or the CCP offend their "community standards"?  If not, why not?  The internet has been describe as a sewer, and Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and the other tech giants illustrate exactly why that is.  

They are now directly choosing certain content to post, and not other content, which makes them publishers. Speaking of publishers, even book publishers such as Simon and Schuster have canceled publishing Josh Hawley's new book about why we might want to reign in Big Tech.  If he finds another publisher, or decides to self publish, will Amazon refuse to carry it?

This is what happens when private enterprise becomes the town square. It seemed to make sense in a time when the mainstream media was manifestly biased. It never occurred to people that the tech corporations would be just as biased, only with even more power. We currently have a situation in all the President has no avenues of communication because corporations have silenced him. Joseph McCarthy was a piker compared to today’s Democrats.

Update: Over at Townhall.com Matt Vespa tells us that A Liberal Reporter thinks the Liberal-Left is going to be abolutely ruthless. The reporter is Michael Tracey. and he makes explicit that Twitter banning President Trump had nothing to do with "safety" and everything to do with consolidating power. He doen's think liberals will like the new rules. I will close with a quote from President John Kennedy, a nam who owed his postion to election fraud, BTW "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible with make violent revolution inevitable." We used to have a saying, back in the 1960s that while I might not agree with what you say, I will defend your right to say it. The Left has shoved both sentiments down the memory hole.